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I remember back in the 1980s that if you had a cheap microcomputer (I had a Dragon32) you actually needed a cheap, low-quality cassette deck to save/load your c
by zabzonk 2y ago
I remember back in the 1980s that if you had a cheap microcomputer (I had a Dragon32) you actually needed a cheap, low-quality cassette deck to save/load your code/data successfully - the higher-fi ones would simply not work well, for reasons I never understood but can definitely attest to from experience.
- rwmj 2y agoThe received wisdom of the time was that a hi-fi was simply too powerful and would blow up the computer (or at least damage the mic/ear circuits). Also quite inconvenient dragging your Speccy next to the family hi-fi, compared to attaching a cheapo portable cassette deck.
- adrian_b 2y agoPerhaps the HiFi ones used some additional processing like Dolby Noise Reduction, which interfered with whatever signal modulation method was used by your computer to save digital data on cassettes.